A ruptured pipeline last month spilled at least 20,000 barrels of crude oil that went undetected until a local farmer stumbled across it while harvesting wheat. Now experts say the spill estimate is a weak guess, and no one knows how much oil was lost. Either way, it’s among the largest in state history -- and a troubling sign of incompetence, or worse.

Halliburton's recent "punishment" after admitting that it destroyed evidence related to the 2010 BP oil spill is the very reason The Hill's Ronald Goldfarb says that the "legal fiction that corporations are entities that are distinct from the parties running them" makes for terrible public policy.

The American contractor that worked for BP on the Gulf of Mexico oil rig announced Thursday that it would plead guilty to destroying evidence relating to the 2010 explosion that sparked the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.